This 3 sentence summary provides the key details and context: The screenplay introduces Jordan Marcos, a 42-year-old woman who is terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed. She is connected to an electronic device called the Terminal, created by Lincoln Todd, which allows her to relive memories. However, the machine keeps losing synchronization with Jordan's memories, frustrating Lincoln in his attempts to help Jordan have one last experience of happiness through her past experiences before she dies.

1. TERMINAL
an original screenplay by
Chuck Loch
Chuck Loch
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Culver City, CA 90230
chuck9@sbcglobal.net

2. FADE IN:
EXT. DESERT -- DAY (MEMORY)
JORDAN MARCOS, 22, a fun-loving, gut-wrenching natural beauty
in BEDOUIN ROBES, roars with glee.
RIVULETS of her long copper-colored hair stream out behind
her like flames blown by the wind.
Her tresses rise and fall with each stride of the powerful
one-humped CAMEL on whose back she crouches.
Her and her beast gallop as one across the pillow-shaped
dunes.
Laughing and grinning, she reigns in the dromedary at the
edge of an oasis, slides off its back, peels off her robes,
and dives headfirst into a desert pool of water.
EXT. UNDERWATER DAY (MEMORY)
Her slim nude body knifes toward the light above through a
galaxy of bubbles.
The light above shimmers.
The bubbles disappear.
All turns black.
JORDAN (O.S.)
Help me.
INT. TERMINAL ROOM DAY
Jordan, now 42, a faded and bloated shell of what she was as
a youth, lies intubated in a HOSPITAL BED with her eyes
closed.
In addition to IV and LIFE-SUPPORT TUBES invading her body,
wires connect a SENSOR BAND encircling her head to a small
suitcase-size ELECTRONIC DEVICE sitting on a bedside TABLE.
Her lips part but say nothing for a moment before she whispers
JORDAN
Lincoln, help me.
LINCOLN TODD, 60, distinguished in his WHITE LAB COAT and
precise in his manipulation of the device's CONTROLS, loses
it and BANGS both fists down on the table beside the device.
Jordan's eyes open.

3. 2.
JORDAN (CONT'D)
I was there - seconds before I met
you, and then I was lost.
Lincoln reaches out and lays a hand on top of one of hers.
LINCOLN
I did everything I could, but the
DAMNED terminal...I lost synch.
Jordan smiles weakly at him through a mask of pain.
JORDAN
But, I was free again. Thank you for
the moment.
LINCOLN
Maybe you've had enough for today?
JORDAN
Can we try the other one? I want to
walk through the garden with you
while I still have time.
Lincoln looks away so she can't see the tears welling in his
eyes.
LINCOLN
Of course.
He pats her hand.
His fingers flip a SWITCH on the Terminal Machine, and a
corresponding DIODE flashes.
Jordan closes her eyes.
EXT. ROSE GARDEN DAY (MEMORY)
Jordan, 22 once again, wears a brightly flowered SUNDRESS
and walks hand-in-hand with a profoundly handsome 42-year-
Old Lincoln through a maze of dazzling blossoms.
Lincoln stops beside a strange BUSH whose iridescent BLOOMS
capture all the red colors of the rainbow.
He picks the largest, picks off its thorns, and fastens it
in her hair behind an ear.
LINCOLN
Now the rose is complete. It has a
home that matches its beauty.
She laughs and picks another one.

4. 3.
She fastens it to the jacket of his lapel and steps back
into
BLACKNESS.
INT. TERMINAL ROOM DAY
Tears seep from the outside corners of Jordan's eyes. They
roll down her cheeks and wet her PILLOW.
LINCOLN
I'm sorry. I failed you again.
Jordan turns toward him.
JORDAN
You didn't. This time I could smell
them.
Lincoln dabs her eyes with a TISSUE.
DOROTHY CHAMPION, a kind nurse in her 50s who looks like
everyone's mother, enters through the door on the other side
of the room.
DOROTHY
Sorry Doctor, it's time.
LINCOLN
I'll be back after your nap.
He removes her sensor band and places it on top of the
Terminal Machine.
He kisses her forehead.
LINCOLN (CONT'D)
I'll recalibrate the synch module
and we can try again.
With difficulty, she takes his hand.
JORDAN
Don't go.
Lincoln makes no attempt to pull away.
KIND NURSE
Baby, baby, you know the rules.
To be a patient in the Terminal you
have to rest after every session.
Let your husband go do his work.
Jordan releases his hand.

5. 4.
JORDAN
Lincoln. I'm...
She can't bear to say the word.
LINCOLN
I'm scared too, Jordan.
INT. ELECTRONICS LAB DAY
On a WORKBENCH, WIRES run from the guts of the Terminal
Machine to an OSCILLOSCOPE and to a SIGNAL GENERATOR.
An IRREGULAR PATTERN displays on the scope's screen.
Lincoln switches the position of the scope's NEEDLE LEADS
he's inserted into the circuitry of the machine.
The display pattern on the screen changes briefly, to a
STABLE TRACE.
Another man in a lab coat, MILES BENDER, 45, cerebral-looking
with the mental tenacity and clarity of Mr. Spock, shakes
his head.
MILES
You're a better inventor than a
technician. The synch circuit checks
out fine. All the circuits check out
fine.
LINCOLN
What is it then? The only two
variables are the machine and...
Lincoln doesn't want to say her name, but Miles finishes the
sentence.
MILES
Jordan?
LINCOLN
No.
MILES
Yes, Lincoln. Jordan's doing something
to stop her own memories.
LINCOLN
I created the Terminal so Jordan
could relive her most happy moments
before she leaves us. Why wouldn't
she want to?

6. 5.
INT. TERMINAL ROOM NIGHT
Dorothy cranks Jordan's bed so she's in a sitting position.
A TRAY OF HOSPITAL FOOD sits on the bedside table.
DOROTHY
There you go, Girl. We got some
delightful, delectable, delicious
spinach for you tonight. Popeye would
love it.
JORDAN
Will it make me strong like him?
DOROTHY
You're already strong and you're
getting stronger every day. You just
don't know it yet.
JORDAN
So tomorrow I might wake up feeling
strong again?
DOROTHY
There's always that possibility.
Lincoln walks into the room, carrying the Terminal Machine.
LINCOLN
Hi, Honey.
JORDAN
I missed you and Dorothy's been
telling me I might wake up tomorrow
strong again.
LINOLN
I'll feed Jordan, Dorothy. You can
go.